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Emma Willis wishes she had guidance from Davina McCall when she was starting out (Picture: Getty)

Emma Willis wishes she could have been mentored by Davina McCall throughout her career in TV.

Emma picked fellow Big Brother host Davina as the person she would ‘100 per cent’ want guidance from if she could go back to the beginning.

The presenter also named Graham Norton and Ant and Dec as presenters she looks up to.

‘Davina, Ant and Dec. I mean. So many,’ Emma said when asked about her ideal mentors.

‘Dermot is great. Graham Norton. I didn’t start working in TV until I was 26 so I was a bit older. And watching T4 with Dermot and June Sarpong and great people like that. Jonathan Ross – I mean he’s amazing.’

She also described becoming her time as a presenter on Big Brother as the ‘turning point’ in her career.

Emma said landing a job on Big Brother was the ‘turning point’ in her career in telly (Picture: Getty)

‘Doing Big Brother’s Little Brother on Channel 4 was my biggest turning point because it’s when I felt like I knew what I was doing,’ she said.

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‘I knew the subject matter really well and it was the first time I felt really confident in what I was doing.

‘Again, it was like a family. I knew everybody there and I knew the show really well because I’d been a viewer from the beginning. That was the point when I started working more and I was comfortable.

‘I always think if you’re comfortable then you’re more confident and it really helped with everything that followed after that.’

Emma is back for another series of The Voice and teased what this year’s twist – the addition of trios – would bring to the show.

Emma is back for another series of The Voice (Picture: ITV)

‘It adds another layer doesn’t it. Trios. What I’m looking forward to in the Battles is finding out how they make that work. And what happens if there’s a trio against a trio. That’s a lot of voices to make work together. Or even a trio against a duo. Or four voices when it’s three against one.

‘How do the coaches make that work in a battle yet set them aside from each other enough for it to be a battle against each other. If one of the trio loses it does it knock the other two so it’s interesting to see how that dynamic works I think.’

The Voice returns 5 January at 8pm on ITV

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